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...supply of marijuana at its source, we will drive prices sky-high and effectively take it out of the hands of 90% of the kids," says Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Last year alone, U.S. officials estimate, 1,200 tons of marijuana were brought across the Mexican line. Only 70,210 Ibs. were detected. Also, the border leaked 20% of the heroin used in the U.S., refined from Mexican Amapola, the poppy, and an unknown amount of U.S.-made drugs such as amphetamines, which can be bought without prescription in Mexico...
...Harvard fencers, sky-high after their upset victory over league-leading Princeton last Saturday, will be looking for their third victory in a row when they meet Brandeis at the IAB today...
Changing that psychology is Washington's most difficult economic task ahead. Some consumers and businessmen continue to pay sky-high prices for goods in the self-fulfilling expectation that prices are destined to rise higher still. Investors switch their money out of fixed-yield bonds and into stocks, which are a better hedge against inflation partly because buyers think that they are. Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork. * Because of rampant inflation, unions increasingly demand unlimited cost-of-living wage increases instead of limited boosts. Complains...
Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the Essay on auto insurance, also received an adequate supply of free advice from colleagues who happen to be policyholders. He heard all the old tales of hardhearted claim adjusters, sky-high premiums, canceled insurance. Shnayerson sympathized, but when he recounted how he had solved his own automobile problems, he had the distinct feeling, he says, that no one was ready to follow his lead...
...fault system also forces insurers to compete almost entirely for "preferred risks"-drivers who seldom drive and people most likely to impress juries if they do get into trouble. As a result, thousands of unpreferred motorists have been unceremoniously stripped of their policies or forced to pay sky-high surcharges, not only because of accidents, but sometimes because they happen to live in "red line" (claim-prone) areas or belong to supposedly risky groups-a category that includes the young, the old, Negroes, actors, barbers, bartenders, sailors, soldiers and men with frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because...